New Styles

The Modern Hands

Every other edition in this shop starts from a dated plate we also sell. These eight do not. Six are the twentieth century’s own grammars — silkscreen and flat spot colour, a printed cover plate, Californian acrylic, desert modernism, the black ink of the 1890s, and paint laid on thick in daylight — carried across the whole wheel. Two more, The Single Stroke and The Flowered Ground, hang on Leo and Scorpio alone.

No plate behind them, and we would rather say it than have you notice. Each sign is posed differently in every hand, so every hand is its own painting and not a finish of another.

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Silkscreen Pop

Photo-silkscreen in flat spot colour, deliberately off-register.

The Saturday Plate

A mid-century American magazine cover plate.

Pool & Palm

Californian acrylic — flat colour, hard light, no haze.

Desert Bloom

Organic form enlarged and smoothed — bone, sage, aubergine.

The Decadent Line

After Aubrey Beardsley, 1895 — pure black ink, no grey.

The Loaded Brush

Loaded impasto in bright daylight — frank, never flattered.

The Single Stroke

One unbroken contour on bare paper — the constellation set inside the body.

The Flowered Ground

Flat gold on a field of flowers — pattern worked to every edge.

The Twelve

Each sign in six hands, in all three shapes — a different pose for every hand.

The Elements

The four trines, repainted in the orientation each was composed in.

The Heavens

The great wheel, the midheaven and the night sea.

The Great Wheel

The Procession and The Whole Ecliptic — the only two wheels that take a modern pass.

278 modern pieces, and every one of them for sale. The Twelve · Commission your own